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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 18:5 → Jeremiah 51:9

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 18:5BSB

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 51:9BSB

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Significance

Jeremiah 51:9 declares of Babylon, "her judgment reaches to the heavens, it rises to the clouds." Revelation 18:5 echoes: "her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities." Both texts use the image of sins/judgment reaching heavenward — a reversal of the Tower of Babel motif (Gen 11:4) where Babylon sought to build to heaven in pride. The phrase also evokes Genesis 18:20-21 where the outcry of Sodom's sin "reached" God. John draws on Jeremiah's specific language about Babylon's sins reaching cosmic proportions to indicate that the measure of guilt is now full and judgment inevitable. The "remembering" of iniquities signals the end of divine patience, just as Jeremiah warned that Babylon's moment of reckoning had arrived.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Longitudinal Theme